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Chester County Woman Trained With Britain’s Best To Become Milliner

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) – The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is just days away, and almost as eye-catching as the ceremony itself will be the fashion worn by the royal family and its guests.

One Chester County woman will be watching closely. She’s a milliner with a royal connection.

Egan learned to sow at 7 years old, helping her accomplished seamstress mother in Russia. But it wasn’t until she was an adult and living in Pennsylvania unfulfilled with a computer science degree that she found her way to hats.

“Millinery came as an accident, as a chance,” she says.

Egan needed a hat for the Radnor Hunt hat contest. She had only 48 hours to create it and she won.